On two very rainy monsoon days at the beginning of June 2016 Jeewan Jal participants performed the play that we had written and devised with the help of Rajukumar Pudasaini one of the top theatre directors in Nepal.

We spent a couple of days brainstorming and thinking...

The Jeewan Jal team and all their hard work and thinking culminated in a four day exhibition, two play performances and 200 copies of our Comic Book: Panika Gunjanharu printed, folded and distributed to exhibition visitors and local children all in the heart of Pa...

This is a freshly subtitled film made early in the project in which Jeewan Jal participants met with women from women's groups in Patan to discuss stories linked to memory, folklore, health and hope and water in Patan. Participants created clay pieces to remember the d...

This is a film of our day in Lele, from where much of the water in Patan flows from. It is a sacred site in a quiet village an hour outside of the city. One of the community medical advisors lives there and helped us arrange some traditional Newar food and we met with...

This poetic piece was made independently by Ragendra with the help of footage he recorded during the project. It encapsulates the overarching issue explored by 'Jeewan Jal': the growing disconnect between people and water (that which is part of us), and so, perhaps, it...

The term 'Stop motion' seems contradicts the degree of motion and emotion that went into creating these two pieces. The first was made on a bandha day. With the roads closed due to political protesting only four participants managed to make it this day. With lower numb...

Anu Rai I had seen a series on TV about untouchability and caste discrimination and I thought it was an important issue to highlight. It is related to water

Jeewan Jal meant different things to different people. Participants share what the project meant to them. 

Our Story Panika Gujanharu is now available as a graphic novel drawn by five artists from the Jeewan Jal team. Please click on the image below to be taken to the web version of the comic.

For those of you who do not read Nepali, the story charts Maya. Maya is Nepali and...

Here is an overview of the water which was donated to the Museum of Water. Some had to be returned to owners and we are in conversation about where the rest of the donations might travel to next!

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International Club Swimming Pool

The international club used to be modern...